While the stars of the show for the celebrations of the Royal Oak’s 50th anniversary were, without a doubt, the new Extra-Thin 16202 and the Openworked 16204, Audemars Piguet won’t only be looking at the Jumbo models. In fact, throughout 2022, the entire permanent Royal Oak collection will be updated. Be reassured; we’re talking small […]
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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Repeater Supersonnerie
Audemars Piguet is famous – rightly famous – for many things; among them the Royal Oak’s instantly recognizable eight-sided bezel and distinctive overall case architecture. What’s less well known in the general watch enthusiast community, however, is that there is quite a lot more to the history of Audemars Piguet than the Audemars Piguet Royal […]
audemars piguet royal oak offshore 43mm ceramic
You may have noticed a lot of Offshores recently, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s the 30th Anniversary of this oversized beast of a lineup. As a fitting salute to the original, Audemars Piguet’s has announced the first ever audemars piguet royal oak offshore 43mm ceramic in black ceramic with matching ceramic bracelet, the new […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 67656
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph. This is a watch that is so known to many of you, it may not need much of an analysis – but this is HODINKEE and you can believe you’re gonna get one. The Royal Oak Chronograph is a watch that has thousands of lovers the world over, and […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak OffShore 26231 Lady Chronograph
Jeweled watches are as trendy as Marvel movies at the moment, and Audemars Piguet Royal Oak OffShore 26231 Lady Chronograph, having already mastered the Marvel collaboration, is expanding its universe of gemset watches. Four new Royal Oak Offshore series were introduced today to celebrate the collection’s 30th anniversary. All have gemset bezels and brightly colored […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Self-Winding Flying Tourbillon Openworked Only Watch 2023
Audemars Piguet (AP) is taking part in Only Watch for the fourth time with the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Openworked 41 mm “Only Watch”. In contrast to the low-key Royal Oak “Jumbo” made for the 2021 instalment of the charity auction, this year’s one-off creation is exceptionally striking in blue and white. […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Spiderman Tourbillon
When Audemars Piguet released the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Black Panther Flying Tourbillon in 2021, it was met with curiosity, a bit of snickering and giggling, and no small amount of impressed awe. The watch was objectively brilliant—to say nothing of the one-off auction version—but Marvel collabs were the purview of brands like Citizen […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak OffShore Grande Complication Pink Gold
Welcome back to an original feature, My First Grail Watch.” Well, no, that’s not entirely right. This is not another chapter in our Grail Watch series of articles, but then again, it could be. Late last year, upon visiting the highly exclusive London watch retailer Marcus in a quest to interview them for our Where […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar 41
Ahhh, the Audemars Piguet Perpetual Calendar. It’s hard to find a rival to this model (remember the ceramic one last year?), so it should come as no surprise at SIHH this year there are a handful making their debut. The ultra-thin Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar RD#2 might be the splashier release, but there’s also the […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is one of the most recognizable luxury watches on the planet – and it also happens to be quite good looking. These two things taken together have helped this more than 45 year old design turn into both an icon and one of the most in-demand pieces of men’s jewelry […]